US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on May 19 for "Iron complexes with phosphonate-based ligands as RFB anolyte materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,577, issued on May 19, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Wash.).

"Iron complexes with phosphonate-based ligands as RFB anolyte materials" was invented by Aaron M. Hollas (Richland, Wash.), Guosheng Li (Richland, Wash.), Minyuan Mil Li (Richland, Wash.), Qian Huang (Richland, Wash.), David M. Reed (Richland, Wash.) and Vincent L Sprenkle (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anolyte for a redox-flow battery (RFB) comprising a metal-ion complex and a phosphonate-based ligand having a phosphonic group wherein the phosphonic acid group is directly coordinated to a metal-ion."

The patent was filed on Aug....